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ReadThis.txt Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, 2011, 1056 pp. hardcover, $35) Spoiler Alert: This review includes some minor spoilers, because there really is no way to summarize a thousand-page book without giving something away. I’m beginning to doubt that Neal Stephenson will ever produce anything matching the brilliance of his masterpiece, Cryptonomicon (The Baroque Cycle was certainly larger in terms of volume and ambition, but not in excellence). In fact, I have to admit that I bogged down halfway through his last tome, Anathem, and never finished it, though I have every intention of trying again. Still, I dutifully pre-order each [...]